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Srijan’s Corporate presentation

Posted by: Rahul Dewan on: May 16, 2009

Here comes our corporate presentation covering our important TYPO3 and Drupal projects and development processes.

Here be Dragons

Posted by: buckycat on: March 24, 2009

Over the past year, we at Srijan Labs have been dabbling in a variety of areas. One key area of interest has been the possibilities afforded by GPS tracking, FOSS GIS tools, and location-based services centred around these. Also, of interest to us is how these services can be harnessed through mobile devices like cell-phones, [...]

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Drupal themes vs TYPO3 templating

Posted by: ssrahman on: February 5, 2009

This is a first draft presentation we prepared which talks about Drupal theme advantages versus TYPO3 templating practices. We’re working on a more detailed version of this to cover code aspects as well. Stay tuned! See the presentation (PDF).

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TYPO3 performance tips

Posted by: leeotzu on: December 3, 2008

All these years I was wondering, what would be the best practice and configuration to have TYPO3 running huge number records with several connections. I found answers to some of the queries, but still working to get a clean solution. TYPO3 can play havoc if not configured properly. So here are the few tips that [...]

XSS sanitization for php

Posted by: leeotzu on: November 7, 2008

Sanitising your code:
Ahm…  Ok adding some techie stuff to your php knowledge. Before accepting any thing from web make sure it is a clean input as you can never trust user input, it may be malicious, So you have to always check your php input. To sanitise this you have to check all global arrays [...]

I am evaluating the reliability and response time of different website monitoring services that are freely avialable on the internet.
To begin with I have considered the following website:

http://www.siteuptime.com/
http://www.watchmouse.com/
http://www.pingdom.com

I will soon post the results/analysis of services with the alerts received.

analysis of a screw up

Posted by: unclepeej on: July 7, 2008

slick professionalism
One of our clients wanted a shutdown scheduled one night at 10pm. This was a suitable job for the “at” command, and I set it up.
Then I noticed the time on the system was out by several minutes. (This was nothing to do with what I’d just set up with the “at” command – [...]

The SCRUM approach with Drupal for rapid product prototyping

Posted by: Rahul Dewan on: June 15, 2008

After several months of conceptualising, discussing, wireframing, and delaying, we finally started development of a pet product for the Tourism industry. Today, early (Sunday) morning, I create a product Blog and completed five posts on the same. It’s currently Private, and we will make it Public once we have the product in some decent shape.
Meanwhile, [...]

automatically mailing a daily backup

Posted by: unclepeej on: June 6, 2008

Introduction
For files a few MB in size, users can do backups to their google mail using their local cron.
“Few MB”? What does “few” mean?
Well, we have a back-end that uses Google mail, and google has 20MB as their message size limit. So we’re talking around 20MB, less the encoding overhead. MIME-encoding, the encoding standard for [...]


About Srijan, India

Srijan (www.srijan.in) is a web consulting company engaged in designing, prototyping and content management systems using open source software such as TYPO3 and Drupal. Its research division, Srijan Labs, builds solutions and products in the Mobile, GPS and GIS space, using Django/Python, and Ruby on Rails.
To work with Srijan: jobs@srijan.in
Business enquiries: business@srijan.in

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